Carton.



E. N. GILFILLAN.

CARTON.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1909.

Patented June 14, 1910.

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CARTON.

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Patented June 14,1910.

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ESSINGTON N. GILFILLAN, 0F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 CONTINENTAL PAPER BAG COMPANY, A CORPORATION OE MAINE.

CARTON.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 14, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Essmcrou N. GIL- FILLAN, of Syracuse, New York, have invented a new and useful Carton, of which the following description and claim constitute the specification, and which is illusrated by the accompanying two sheets of drawings.

This carton is a structure which is adapted to receive, hold and carry without 1njury, a dozen eg 5 or a dozen peaches, pears, plums or other fruits, or a dozen specimens of any articles of similar form; and to receive, hold and carry each of those articles in a separate nest, each of which nests h'as'concave sides conforming quite closely to the convex sides of the egg or other articles to be received, held and carried thereby.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a. View of either of the longer two opposite edges of a rectangular sheet of cardboard, which has eight parallel creases across its shorter dimension. Fig. 2 is an edge view .of the same sheet of cardboard, after the portions which are adjacent to the middle creases 1, have been drawn toward each other and upward. Fig. 3 is aview of the blank of Fig. 2, after the pair of creases 2, have been drawn upward and toward each other, and after the pair of creases 3 have also been drawn upward and toward each other. Fig. 4 is a view of the blank of Fig. 3 after a number of half nests have been made in the flat outwardly extending portions of that blank. Fig. 5 is a view of the blank of Fig. 4, after those outwardly extending portions of the blank of that figure, are turned over toward each other, so as to put' the half nests right side up, and locate them within the longitudinal chambers in the blank. Fig. 6 is a lan View of the structure of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 IS a lateral section on the line a a, of Fig. 6, of the structure of Figs. 5 and 6, except that Fig. 7 shows the carton closed, by turning one of its halves bodily over, along its central longitudinal crease, upon the other half. Fig. 8 1s a copy of the inner portions of Fig. 7.

These cartons can be made by hand with hand tools, or by machiner In either case, they may be manufacture through the following operations:

A rectangular sheet of cardboard, which may properly be one-thirty-second of an inch thick, and may be composed of any of the cheaper sorts of fibrous material suitable for making cheap cardboard, and which may be about twenty-four inches by about twelve inches in size, is first moistened with steam, and is then provided with the center creases 1; and with the intermediate creases 2, on the two sides of the center creases, respectively; and with the outer pair of reversed creases 3 still farther from the center of the sheet, as is indicated in Fig. 1. Thereupon the blank of Fig. 1 is transformed into that of Fig. 2, by drawing'upward that portion which,is occupied by the center creases 1, and those portions which are adjacent to those creases, as shown in Fig. 2. Next those portions of the blank of Fig. 2 which are occupied by the intermediate creases 2, are drawn upward, together with the adjacent parts of the blank of Fig. 2;, and those parts of the blank of Fig. 2 which are occupied by the reversed creases 3, together with those parts of the blank which extend from the creases 3, about an inch toward the center of the blank, are drawn upward; while those portions of the blank of Fig. 2 which are outside of the reversed creases 3 are left flat, as flaps 4, but are drawn toward each other and also upward as shown in Fi 3. Thereupon, while the upper surfaces 0 the flat outwardly. extending flaps 4 of Fig. 3, are held against the lower flat surfaces of adjacent blocks of wood, or other passive resistances, a cutter is thrust upward from below, against the under surfaces of each of those flaps, and makes an incision or a series of incisions through the same. Each of those incisions is preferably composed of six cuts about one inch long extending radially from a common center. As many such compound incisions are made in each of the flaps 4 as the number of nests which are to be made in the finished-carton, which number is preferably twelve, and which twelve incisions are preferably in two parallel rows, having six incisions in each row. Those twelve compound incisions having been made, either successively or simultaneously, through each of the flaps 4, the resulting six triangular flaps made by each incision, are forced from below -'by the convex member of a pair of dies, upward into and against the sides of a corresponding concave member of the same pair of dies, so as to transform those six triangular cardboard flaps into an inverted concave nest.

- due. to their having been pressed upward into concave forms. That ressing upward not only separates the si es of the flaps from each other, but likewise separates their points, resulting in each .nest bein composed of six flaps, which in one of t e half nests shown in Fig. 6, are indicated by the numeral 5, and of an opening in the form of a sixpointed star, wh1ch opening is indicated by the numeral 6, in one of the half nests shown in Fig. 6, and by the numeral 7 in four instances in Fig. 4 and in four instances in Fig. 5.

The above described operations upon the creased cardboard of Fig. 1', result in producing four 10 tudinal open ended chambers, 8-, 9, 10 an 11 lengthwise-ofthe blank,"

and also in producing twelve half nests 12, in each of the fla s 4 of the blank of Fig. 4.

The structure s own in Fig. 4 is a complete commercial structure, any desired number of which may be nested together for shipment in large quantities.

.A user of such a structure as that shown in Fig. 4, will prepare to use it by turning its flaps 4 upward, over and. toward'each other, upon its hinge-like creases 3, and then downward to the positions shown in'Fig. 5; in which positions each row of six half nests 12 are located within the chambers 8, 9, 10 and ll-respectively. Thereupon one egg is placed, in each of the twelve half nests on oneside of the-center of the structure of Figs. 5 and 6; and then the other half of that structure is turned over upon the hingelike crease 1, and onto the former half of the structure, so as to inclo'se each of the twelve gs in a separate nest of its own, as shown, in respect of two of those twelve nests, in the cross sectional Fig. 7 of the draw The twelve eggs being thus inclosed 1n the completed and closed carton;

the u er and lower halves of that carton are he together by means of a cord or band fastened around them, or by any other suitable means. Thereupon any desirednumber of such cartons, filled with eggs or other articles, may be packed in wooden boxes for transportation to retail stores. Retailing merchants, on receiving such boxes may open them, and deliver the cartons and their contents to their customers without removing the eggs or other articles from the cartons before so doing.

I think the best mode in which I have contemplated employing the rinciple of my invention, is that delineate in the first seven figures of the accompanying drawings.

I have specified cheap cardboard as the material to be used in making my carton,

because that material is good enough for such cartons when used to receive, hold and carry eggs or fruits. But when such a carton is to be used for receiving, holding and carrying permanent spherical articles, it may be made of sheet aluminum or other good material capable of permanent flection, and strong enough to sustain, in each of its nests, the weight of the article placed therein.

I claim as my invention:

A carton, composed of cardboard or other sheet material capable of permanent flection, bent to form two bodies united by a double wall, the two halves of which wall have a hinge like union, and each of which bodies has an outer single wall, and a double partition between its outer wall and the double wall, the carton also having a flap attached by a hinge-like union to each of those outer walls, and adapted to extend therefrom across the nearest double partition, nearly or quite to the central double wall, and each of which flaps is provided with a plurality of half nests, ada ted to be located on opposite sides of that ouble partition ;"a1l substantially as described.

ESSINGTON N. GILFILLAN. Witnesses:

Snmon E. MoCLUsKY, J orm SHEA. 

